(04-28-2015, 07:05 PM)OttoVann Wrote: I think basing the idea that BF5 is objectively worse than BF4 is suspect when using metacritic scores because it is a very common and borderline acceptable practice to nuke metacritic scores with bad reviews when the game plays well but online service is disrupted or down.
I also find it suspect that because adults spend more money than minors on videogames, that videogames aren't primarily driven and marketed to them and that a lot of games are made today with that demographic in mind.
I see no problem with 31 year olds spending more money on kids than 12 year olds on average, because they are buying games for said 12 year olds.
Does any of this make sense?
I follow. Let me play Devil's Advocate.
If a game comes out and is a solid A (Let's say it's a 90/100), people will play it and enjoy it. It's a good game, memorable, the sort of game you recommend when people buy the system it's on. "Man, you've gotta buy Save the Princess Happy Smile. It's genre-defining!"
It gets a sequel a year later. It's more of the same - still solid, but not a refreshing new game like the original was. Is that game better or worse than the original? How do you define that? Something like Portal comes out and completely bends how you look at first person puzzle navigation. Portal 2 does the same exact stuff as the first game, just differently. So... Is Portal 1 "better" objectively? All Portal 2 did was copy it. It could have been an expansion pack. How do you determine what's worth a new score or not?
Battlefield games (and CoD specifically, but that's been alleviated a little in recent years) are notorious for being Same Game, New Paint. It's the problem Madden has every year; It's last year's model with some new gimmicks, for better or worse (FIRST PERSON FOOTBALL! QB VISION CONE!). Is Madden 2015 better than Madden 2005? They're basically the same, barring rosters and graphics.
As for 31 year olds buying their kids video games: I'm not so sure about that. If that 31 year old had a kid right as they turned 21 that kid is 10. I know the reputation Xbox Live has, but I don't think there's that many 10 year olds buying the New Hotness every year. In my opinion it's a lot more likely that the kids who grew up playing their NES and SNES and Genesis and Playstations just kept at the hobby. The same people I would play games with after school are still playing games now, after all.
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